It is necessary to eat moon cakes on the Mid Autumn Festival, but because moon cakes are high calorie food, excessive eating will harm your health. So how to eat moon cakes to be the healthiest? Follow Xiaobian to learn about it.
1. What will happen if I eat more moon cakes
Moon cake belongs to high fat and high calorie food. A medium-sized moon cake contains more than two bowls of rice, and its fat can be equivalent to six cups of whole fat. Therefore, Chinese people should never eat more moon cakes. People with gallbladder, pancreas and gastrointestinal diseases should be cautious about eating moon cakes.
Moon cake belongs to high sugar, high fat food, some of the following patients should be careful. Patients eat more moon cakes will cause the rise of blood lipid and blood sugar. People who suffer from and over eat moon cakes will cause gallbladder contraction and bile retention, which is easy to cause acute attack or aggravation of the disease. Patients with hyperlipidemia, such as full moon cake, will increase blood viscosity, slow down blood flow, which is not conducive to the rehabilitation of cerebrovascular disease. The occurrence and development of seborrheic dermatitis and other skin diseases are related to the excessive intake of sugar and fat. Excessive consumption of moon cakes may increase the secretion of sebaceous glands and aggravate the condition of these patients. For the patients with gastric and duodenal ulcer, eating too much moon cake will promote the secretion of gastric acid, which will aggravate the stimulation of ulcer surface and be harmful to the healing of ulcer.
Moon cakes are generally high in sugar content, adding more fat to maintain the taste, and the production procedures are mostly fried and baked. They are high in sugar, high in heat and high in fat. However, the gastrointestinal organs of children are delicate, and excessive consumption of moon cakes will increase the burden of gastrointestinal tract, causing abdominal distention, slight diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, and even loss of appetite, dizziness and other symptoms.
2. How to eat moon cakes healthily
2.1. Moon cake is a high-energy food. There are many young people who don't eat breakfast or don't eat enough for breakfast. You may as well put moon cake in breakfast. In addition to eating a moon cake (100g), you can also drink a box of milk or soymilk, and add some vegetables and fruits to make a good breakfast, but it is recommended that you don't eat it in this way for a long time.
2.2. The moon cake itself has a good taste. It can be cut into small pieces and used as dessert between two meals. A mooncake is cut into four or eight pieces. Three or five family members or colleagues, you and me, talk about work and talk about family life. It also has a special charm.
2.3 of course, mooncakes can also be used as emergency food. When it is inconvenient to carry food when traveling, mooncakes are a good choice. Think about it. When you're exhausted and hungry, eating a piece of moon cake is really enjoyable.
2.4. Moon cake is high in sugar and fat. It can be boiled into congee together with coarse grains and miscellaneous beans. It is also a delicacy.